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When astronauts at the International Space Station opened up the Crew Dragon capsule to find a stuffed Earth inside, it was love at first sight.

You can count Vice President Mike Pence among the many people impressed and inspired by the maiden mission of SpaceX's new astronaut taxi.

A new study has proposed ways to search for advanced alien life by looking for the gamma rays produced by a black hole spacecraft The post Gamma Ray Telescopes could Detect Starships Powered by Black Hole appeared first ...

It's going to take more than one milestone mission per planet for scientists to crack the mysteries of Jupiter and Saturn.

The C-Band Alliance's head of advocacy and government relations Preston Padden left the organization Tuesday after less than six months in the position. SpaceNews.com

A recent search for oddball supersymmetric particles, which could explain some of the weirdness of the universe, came up empty-handed.

The latest data sent back by the Juno and Cassini spacecraft from giant gas planets Jupiter and Saturn have challenged a lot of current theories about how planets in our solar system form and behave.

A new study from John Hopkins University has shown that blowing up asteroids might be harder than we thought. The post Sorry Hollywood, it’s Going to Take a Lot More to Destroy an Asteroid appeared first on Universe To...

Many alien planets around stars like our sun are potentially extraordinarily tilted, leading to dramatic swings between extreme winters and summers, a new study finds.

Satellites bring immense benefits to everyone on Earth. From monitoring our changing planet and increasingly severe natural disasters, to providing resilient telecom networks and delivering services such as precise navig...

Everybody is talking about 5G, the new generation of wireless communication. We are at the start of a revolution in connectivity for everything, everywhere, at all times.

NASA's Mars InSight mission has hit a snag: Its heat probe appears to have struck an obstacle just below the surface of the red planet.

An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) should be able to "see" ultralight bosons if they exist. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...

Technology image of the week: Entrepreneurs gathered beside a replica meteorology satellite plan to make future business weather by harnessing space innovation

ESA is planning Earth's first dedicated space weather observatory to warn of potentially harmful turbulence in our parent star. Like a referee at a sports game, the Lagrange spacecraft will be able to observe both the su...

The International Space Station orbits Earth, 400 km above our heads, running scientific experiments that cannot be done anywhere else.

With key space weather satellites expected to fail before U.S. and European agencies launch replacements, "small satellites may be the only way of averting a bleak future," said Daniel Baker, director of the University o...

The rotation of stars in galaxies such as the Milky Way is puzzling. The orbital speeds of stars should decrease with their distance from the center of the galaxy, but in fact, stars in the middle and outer regions of ga...

Many people hope to catch a glimpse of these reddish-green swirls of colour floating in the polar skies. Few are as lucky as ESA astronaut Tim Peake, who captured this dazzling display of the aurora Australis from the In...

NASA's recently deceased Kepler space telescope launched on March 6, 2009, ushering in a new era of planetary science.

The neutrinos enmeshed in the vast cosmic web could provide a glimpse of the earliest observable moment after the Big Bang.

A silhouette of SpaceX's Crew Dragon coasts over Earth's blue horizon in this breathtaking photo by NASA astronaut Anne McClain.